I said, in response to his words, that men who wanted to do things in their own way had better make a world in their own way, because in this world things are not done like this.

Dissi, a quelle parole, che gli uomini che volevan fare a lor modo, bisognava che si facessino un mondo a lor modo, perché in questo non si usava cosí.

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